Electric-wire cleat



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

FREDRIC B. EVANS, OF CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- IIAIJF TO THEODORE COULD, JR., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ELECTRIC-WIRE CLEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,165, dated April 14, 1896.

Application tiled August 26, 1895. Serial No. 560,568. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDRIG B. EVANS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clinton, in the county of IVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Cleat for Electric IVires, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cleats that are made of porcelain and fastened to their support with screws in either a one, two, or three wire form and the objects of my improvement are, first, to facilitate the putting up of electric wires by having the two parts of the cleat of exactly the same form and size, thus requiring no trouble in mating; second, to lend strength in gripping the wire by the interlocking shape; third, to prevent the twisting tendency where two wires are used in the same cleat from an unequal strain by the same interlocking shape and, fourth, to provide adjustment for wires of different sizes. I attain these objects by the shape illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 5 represents the whole cleat 5 Fig. l, the half-cleat, which is an exact duplicate of the other half, Fig. 2, reversed. Figs. 3 and 4c are end views of either Figs. l or 2.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

The partA in Figs. l and 2 is on the oppo site side of the cleat from the parts B B. The

abutting surfaces of the portions A A and the abutting surfaces of the portions B B are all substantially in planes perpendicular to the base of the cleat or to the surface to which it is fastened and at right angles to the holes through which the wires pass. Thus when reversed and placed together the parts intel lock, forming a riding-cleat adjustable to different sizes of wire.

The small offsets C C give passage to the wire, and when placed together form angular holes which grip the wire rmly.

D D represent the holes for the screws.

The idea is the same in a cleat for one, two, or three wires.

I am aware that prior to my invention porcelain cleats have been made in various forms. I therefore do not claim the invention broadly.

That I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A wiring-cleat made in two similar and interchangeable parts, said parts having interlocking faces substantially perpendicular to the base of the cleat and at right angles to the wire-passages.

2. A wiring-cleat made in two similar and interchangeable parts, adjustable toward and away from each other to accommodate various sizes of wires, and having interlocking faces substantially perpendicular to the base of the cleat, and at right angles to the wire-passages.

FREDRIC B. EVANS. Witnesses:

CARRIE M. EvANs, E. A. EVANS. 

